How fast is "fast enough"

[HopperJF]

bloodline wrote:

A6000 wrote:
We have 020's at 14 mhz w/FastRam, 030's at 25 to 50 mhz, 040's at 25 to 40 mhz, and 060's at 50 to 90 mhz,

Now, putting aside the view that a computer can never be "too fast", what would be the minimum useable processor and speed.

For me the minimum is currently 2.33Ghz... and even that is starting to become a limitation as I need to push my creative abilities.

And I bet a vanilla A1200 with HD can boot the OS and load applications quicker.

[HopperJF]

melott wrote:
I have a WarpEngine 040 @ 40 mhz running OS 3.9
in my A3000 and it does all I want it to just fine.

IMHO Lazy and inefficent programmers are the problem.
I'm not refering to the hobbiests who dabble and write
some small util or something like that. I'm refering to
the Pro's who write for a living.
Look what was done with a 1 mhz C=64. No room for garbage
on that machine, they wrote good tight code.
The faster the CPU's get the sloppier the coder will be.

Mel
 

Agreed. People don't seem to care about efficiency any more. The power is that high that efficiency goes right out of the window.